Is there a market out there to cut that almost in half? And I suspect there is.
Bill Nelson
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Bill Nelson is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Senator from Florida from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Florida's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001. Nelson also held the position of Florida's Insurance Commissioner from 1995 to 1999, where he focused on consumer protection and insurance reform.
There are, in fact, private companies that are getting into the business now of supersonic transports, but they do not have this characteristic.
America cannot afford to take its eye off the ball with the rising threat of the CCP.
I think what you have said, a 5-year authorization bill, would be very, very well received in the aerospace community.
What we are going to do is a multi-year test, taking it to different locations all over the United States, and see if the muffled roar is acceptable to the people on the ground.
Continued Congressional support is critical to the success of the CLD program.
Our seed corn is research and development. We do not want to ever give that up, and that is the mission of NASA.
Most recently, Russia as well about a year ago did an ASAT test, unbelievably putting junk into the very altitude where the International Space Station is.
The X-59, which is this extraordinarily super designed needle-nosed aircraft is going to fly at the end of this year.
I cannot say it in 5 seconds, but I can say that that mission that you are referring to, it is characterizing the orbit that eventually our Gateway or space station will go in.
It will fly supersonic but its design is such a radical design, that instead of pushing the bow wave going through the atmosphere, as you go from subsonic to supersonic, which causes that audible sound that goes 'boom, boom,' it will…





